Zhang Liaoyuan

Zhang Liaoyuan
You love the server and the server love you
2022
Rack server, 3.5-inch HDD, acrylic base
440 × 650 × 120 mm, acrylic base: 850 × 400 × 45 mm

I am not a sentimental person, at least I yearn for a sober life. I don’t drink or smoke, which can explain this. But I don’t know when I began to fall in love with the world of server links involuntarily. This kind of trap makes people unable to extricate themselves. Although my reason tells me that this is not normal, because it does bring me the same amount of trouble, which reminds me of the song that Jacky Cheung sang decades ago:
Love paired with hatred, just more or less
Happiness paired with trouble, unless you discard both.
Your tenderness is far more important than other things
Without you, every second is full of pain……

About Zhang Liaoyuan：
Zhang Liaoyuan (b.1980) lives and works in Hangzhou, China. Since 2009, he has focused on visual phenomena and experimented with “reverse” media related to light, imaging, and viewing methods, so as to make the media structure the object of viewing and explore how visual experience affects our cognition. In 2016, Zhang began a new image project, focusing on the technical logic of digital media and using the system’s own structure to create and imagine. In recent years, he takes “viewing” as a starting point to investigate the linguistic phenomenon and media mechanism in the art world. Through a direct reuse of form in dismantling way, he brings out its close relationship with our cognitive activities.